Candace C. Fleischer, B.S., and ‘07, M.S., chemistry, is the director of the Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging Laboratory at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta. She recently received a $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. Her research includes the development of magnetic resonance-based methods for identifying inflammatory biomarkers in malignant brain tumors. She and her colleagues are also studying ways to noninvasively measure brain temperature, which is important for people who have suffered a brain injury.